Author: Sarah Lynne Bowman
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Implementing Transformative Role-playing Games textbook now available!
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! The Implementing Transformative Role-playing Games textbook is now available for free download and print on demand! The book is the second in a series of two developed by the EDGE Consortium, an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership, featuring authors from Uppsala University, Dragons’ Nest, Avalon Larp Studio, Chaos League, and Turku University of Applied Sciences.…
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EDGE Dissemination event in Oslo, Norway!
EDGE Dissemination event – Use role-playing games for transformative purposes Come learn about using analog role-playing games for transformative purposes! Avalon Larp Studio from Erasmus+ EDGE is running a dissemination event July 11th, 2026. Learn about the EDGE project, how to design analogue role-playing games for transformation, and see how to use this in your…
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EDGE at History@Play in Luxembourg!
EDGE members Sarah Lynne Bowman and Kjell Hedgard Hugaas had a wonderful time at History@Play hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg on April 22, 2026! Huge thanks to Sandra Camarda and Jean Botev for their fantastic hospitality and stimulating conversation. We were happy to share our…
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EDGE presents at the Edu-Larp Conference 2026!
Erasmus EDGE team members Sarah Lynne Bowman, Alessandro Giovannucci, and Josefin Westborg had a wonderful time co-organizing the Edu-Larp Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden with University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University on April 15! We had 14 excellent program items from appox. 26 educator practitioners. Bowman gave a presentation of the results of the project, while…
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Dragons Nest and EDGE host a 2-day event in Athens at ICPS!
The team is still so inspired after this our dissemination event hosted by Dragons Nest and ICPS – College for Humanistic Sciences, Elektra Diakolambrianou, and Katerina Zannou with support from afar from Angie D. Oronar! Click here for a short video put together by Katerina! She joined us at our larp Lumen and was so…
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Announcing EDGE event in Athens!
Join us this month in Athens! Dragons Nest from Erasmus+ EDGE is running a dissemination event at ICPS – College for Humanistic Sciences March 27-28, 2026. We will provide some information on the textbooks, curriculum, Tech Toolkit, and Lumen larp, including a design workshop based on the app and archetypal character types offered in the…
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EDGE Dissemination event in Visby, Sweden!
What a beautiful day in Visby, Sweden, for our dissemination event at Gotland Game Hub at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design! Today, Sarah Lynne Bowman and Kjell Hedgard Hugaas shared an overview of Erasmus EDGE, then led a student group through parts of the character creation workshop from the larp Lumen, which was created…
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Chaos League event in Rome!
On February 15, 2026, Chaos League held an Erasmus EDGE event for a larp club in Rome, Italy! Alessandro Giovannucci presented the archetype cards developed by Avalon Larp Studio for our larp Lumen, then guided the participants through our character creation workshop. Check out some photos from this fun event!
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Photos from the Lumen larp!
We are excited to share photos from the Lumen larp we ran Oct. 2-5, 2025 outside of Florence, Italy! Lumen was a highly experimental educational larp that had the aim of teaching our curriculum in transformative role-playing game design while experiencing a transformative larp. 34 characters engaged in off- and in-game lessons ran by 7…
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Erasmus EDGE’s Meet Me Halfway larp script now available!
We are delighted to announce our larp script for Meet Me Halfway is now available! Developed for Erasmus+ EDGE, the larp was primarily designed by Sarah Lynne Bowman (Uppsala University), Josephine Rydberg (volunteer), and Angie Bandhoesingh (Dragon’s Nest) with guidance and implementation from other members of the consortium. Taisto Suominen (TUAS) served as technical lead. The premise…